Chapter 1
Broken hearts and Broken Souls
Chapter 1
Author's note: This story was inspired on an idea given to me by a friend in twitter Lyssa Grande and goes by the nick ArianaRiot so please follow her :) she's a nice girl.
December 22nd. Valentine residence. Catarina "Cat" Valentine is in the kitchen baking cookies, her parents, Olivia and Elliot, ran a successful consulting firm and were on a business trip in New York and were stated to be home the next day, so Cat, their only daughter, wanted to receive them with same Christmas cookies she baked every year. She had just finished putting them in the oven when the phone rang.
-Hello?
-Hi sweetie, how is it going? -her mother asked.
-Everything is fine, I'm baking you guys some cookies and
-Look... sweetheart... your father and I... won't be able to make it tomorrow, we'll be back on the 27th... you understand that our business well-being is the best for all of us right?
-Yeah... it's OK...
Cat cleaned the tears from her eyes as she hanged up the phone. The following morning she went to look for her friends. The first one she met was Tori.
-Hey Tori! -she happily saluted her.
-Hi Cat. What's up?
-So... what are you doing tomorrow?
-I'll be home... my grandmother is visiting so, we'll spend the day with her, why?
-Nothing... just... wondered...
Later she met with Robbie.
-Hey Robbie! Hi Rex!
-What's up Little Red -Robbie replied through his ventriloquist doll Rex
-Well.. what are you guys doing tomorrow?
-I'll go with my grandma to Houston to spend the holidays with my Aunt Gloria.-replied Robbie
Cat lowered her head.
-All right... -she said walking away
-Weird girl I tell you - Rex said
The day went on and nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary, but someone had noticed that Cat was not happy at all, for one, the pizza she had for lunch stayed on the plate when they left, untouched. After a lecture on the differences between acting for a movie and in a theater stage Sikowitz dismissed the class.
-So, how about the Groovie smoothie? -Andre suggested
-I'm up for that -Tori said
-Guys can you hold on for a second? I think I left my car keys in Sikowitz classroom -Beck said
Following a hunch he returned to the classroom, he could have sworn that Cat didn't even moved when they were dismissed so he wanted to check on her. As he got closer he could hear sobs, when he reached the door they became clearer and he saw that, as he feared, it was Cat, still in her seat, sobbing.
-Cat?
He walked to her and knelt holding her hands.
-What's wrong Catie?
Cat sniffed and glared at him, his smile, and the way it sounded when he called her "Catie" made her shiver.
-It's just that... my parents won't be around for Christmas... and everyone has something to do... Tori with her grandma... Robbie with his uncle... so I'll be all alone... and...
Beck used his fingers to clean the tears from her eyes.
-Well... I know someone you haven't asked.
Cat's eyes opened wide.
-Who?
-Me. I'll be at your house at 7pm tomorrow OK?
-But... what about Jade? -Cat asked
-She's in Europe remember? I'll be there, we'll have fun. -Beck assured her.
-YAAY! -Cat said hugging him.
Cat spent the following day cleaning and cooking and preparing everything for the evening, at 7pm she was ready as the doorbell rang. Beck was standing there with a pizza, a pint of ice cream and some movies.
-Ready for a movie marathon?
The teenager had a hard time trying not to drop everything he was carrying as Cat effusively hugged him.
-OK, so let's start the movies shall we?
-Nop, I have a surprise for you -Cat said leading him to the table.
Beck's eyes opened wide when he saw the table, it was a fully Christmas dinner.
-I...
-It's Christmas Eve, we're not eating pizza. Come on, sit down -Cat invited him with a smile.
Beck enjoyed the food Cat had prepared for him, from roasted turkey to a delicious cherry pie with vanilla ice cream and without forgetting the Parmesan cupcakes she also included in the menu. She also included one more thing that was going to be the reason for the disaster that was looming over her: wine.
-You really cooked all this? -Beck said still baffled.
-Yeah, cooking is one of my hobbies, last year, during summer vacation my mom signed me up for cooking classes at UCLA, I learned a lot.
-I can see that - Beck said
-So... do you like it?
-it's incredible...
Beck noticed that Cat alone had already drank over half the bottle of wine she served with dinner.
-I think you should cut it with the wine...
-Oh it's all right... I do it all the time...
After dining the sat in the couch to watch movies, Cat snuggled with Beck when they started to watch "Titanic", right after the scene where Rose and Jack got inside a car in the ship's cargo bay, the wine and the feelings she had for Beck mixed to make her lose all means of control.
-I love that part of the movie -Cat said
-It's rom
But before Beck could finish Cat pulled his face and began to kiss him, in mere seconds the teenager found himself with Cat on top of him sharing a passionate kiss, blinded by the wine they drank he returned it and seconds after he was on top of the red haired girl pulling at her dress and kissing her chest and shoulders, his hands moved on her legs and then went under her skirt, and had she not uttered the words she spoke, he would have made a mistake that would for surely added more fuel to the fire of the disaster that was beginning to start.
-Please be gentle... it's my first time...
Beck's eyes opened wide as sense came back to him, he stood up closing his shirt.
-Cat... I'm sorry... I... Cat?
As he got near the couch he noticed that the teenager was sound asleep. He covered her with his jacket and kissed her in the forehead before leaving. The following morning Tori's phone began to rang, as usual she was in her room while her phone ran in the living room, her sister Trina, as usual too, was first to answer.
-Hi Tori!
-Hi Cat! -Trina answered and pretending to be her little sister.
-I have to tell you about me and Beck, you're not going to believe it...
Trina's eyes opened wide as she heard all that Cat was saying, Tori glared at her as she walked downstairs and her older sister was still with her face in shock.
-Are you OK? And what are you doing with my phone? -She inquired.
-Nothing...
The following day at Hollywood Arts Tori was meet in the hallway by Cat.
-Hey Tori!
-Oh hi Cat.
-So what do you think about me and Beck? -the red haired girl asked.
-You make a cute couple and YOU AND WHO? -Tori stopped dead on her tracks.
-Me and Beck, I told you about it yesterday over phone silly, don't you remember?
Tori was baffled to say the least.
-Trina...OK, Cat, let's think for a second that I don't remember, what exactly did you told me?
Cat smiled childishly as she began to talk, Tori couldn't believe what she was hearing.
-And... I... I think... I had my first time with Beck...
Tori froze in space and time, had she heard correctly? Had Beck been capable to taking advantage of Cat even though she seemed to have wanted it in the first place? Meanwhile, in the school computer lab, Trina sent an e-mail that was going to create a disaster like nothing Hollywood had seen before, as, at the other side of the world, Jadelyn "Jade" West was with her parents checking her e-mail in the hotel lounge before going to bed, her eyes opened wide as she read what Trina told her about Cat's night with Beck, needless to say the fury and rage that built within her...
To be continued...